Glaciers Melt At Fastest Rate in Past 5,000 Years »
Posted By Neophile 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & TechnologyWorld's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, threatening catastrophe for millions.
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kboy1 year, 3 months ago
"Based on historical records and other evidence, the rate at which the glaciers are melting is also thought to be faster that at any time in the past 5,000 years" but the actual monitoring has been just the last 30 years. A lot of speculation! How about this: A thousand (give or take)years ago Vikings liven in Greenland and raised wheat and cattle. How's come this area is now covered with ice if everything is melting?
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libsRfunny1 year, 3 months ago
"...Professor Wilfried Haeberli, director of the monitoring service. 'There's no absolute proof...'"
Yep, more liberal hyperbole. Question: How do they know how fast glaciers were retreating 5,000 years ago?
Given how much of the Earth was covered in glaciers during the last ice age, how come there is land still left? I'd say the big danger is past.
I recently was flipping through an old copy of "Set up and Sold out," a book on the Green Party and how it goes about trying to do exactly what Al Gore and the rest of the Church of Global Warming does every day: create an artificial crisis, scare the crap out of everyone and try to push a socialist agenda.
Humans at most contribute about 3 percent of total CO2 in the atmosphere. We are not "forcing" global warming.
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airglide1 year, 3 months ago
Try another. An Alaska pilot can no longer land near a glacier where he used to take tourists because the glacier has grown a half mile in the last two years.
With record snow fall this winter in the northern hemisphere, I presume an increase in other places. Nay sayers will belittle evidence rather than countering with CURRENT proof to the contrary.
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injest1 year, 3 months ago
Neo, please explain HOW planes that landed on TOP of the ice in July 15, 1942, would be found 46 years later UNDER 260 feet of ice?
World War II Planes Found in Greenland In Ice 260 Feet Deep
AP
Published: August 4, 1988
LEAD: Six American fighter planes and two bombers that crash-landed in Greenland in World War II have been found 46 years later buried under 260 feet of ice, searchers said today.
Six American fighter planes and two bombers that crash-landed in Greenland in World War II have been found 46 years later buried under 260 feet of ice, searchers said today
A group from Atlanta said it found what became known as the ''lost squadron'' last month and plans to tunnel into the ice and side the eight air-planes to the surface.
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simonsez1 year, 3 months ago
Another garbage story from neo ...
Why is this stupid story staying on page one with only one comment?
Countdown ...
one billion ...
999,999,999 ...
999,999,998 ...
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libsRfunny1 year, 3 months ago
Probably because they are trying like hell to ignore the story I submitted today from the Washington Post debunking the Iraq War for Oil myth pushed by the likes of Neo, Guppy/Edinburgh, Aidneag, etc. etc.
Liberals HATE all evidence contrary to their narrow viewpoints. As far aas this story goes, to quote Aidenag: This isn't a peer-reviewed study (as if any of them ever actually read a peer-reviewed journal or had access to them).
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THOMNH621 year, 3 months ago
Hey Libs, well put. So plain and true why is it people can't see the damn forest through the trees. Hillary is a socialist and Obama is well we are not really sure yet, he is certainly anti American or anti capitalism. They all talk about getting rid of the special interest groups but who is funding their campaigns. I give up, all I want to do is mind my own business and enjoy life but with Obama and Hillary on the way you can bet your tax rate will be well over 50%, how do you enjoy life then.
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quackpot1 year, 3 months ago
How can you possibly "enjoy life" knowing that your "enjoyment" is at the expense of your future generations?
Do you really think that the Bush program of MASSIVE debt, TRASHING of the dollar, and OUT-OF-CONTROL spending is rational?
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HMMace1 year, 3 months ago
Yeah--and everything started with the big bang..it amazes me how these people can predict the past...These people guess, and we are supposed to believe it..Oh--it didn't start with the big bang?? All the matter is falling together, err no--every thing is spreading out--I think..
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Cityslicker1 year, 3 months ago
We are going to die , run away , dig holes and bury ourselves before the giant melting Glaciers flood our homes .
Keep your stick on the Ice !
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RussianThreats1 year, 3 months ago
Hmm...explain to me again how news of environmental damage could be construed as socialism?
I didn't know the ice caps belonged to the Communist Party.
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cloud151 year, 3 months ago
Can everyone PLEASE stop talking about expanding and retreating Glaciers? Some are retreating some are expanding, everyone knows that! Does it prove anything? It proves that climates are changing. Does that mean there is man made global warming? NO! Does that mean that the climate changes are not man made? Absolutely not.
To sum it up, talk about glaciers doesn't solve the argument of man made climate change the slightest bit.
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ETproductions1 year, 3 months ago
It sure looks from here like George W. Bush will rise to the level of absolute worst President in the history of the USA.
One of his earliest acts was scuttling the Kyoto Protocol, thereby ensuring 8 years of virtually worldwide stay the course toward disaster.
And with the US economy going into absolute meltdown, we're stuck in GWB's pointless war in Iraq. It's made us less safe, given Bin Laden time to regroup, and eaten up a half trillion dollars in direct cost plus 3 trillion in long-term commitments (veterans care, equipment wear and tear, etc.)
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BB641 year, 3 months ago
Skippy, you quote the Kyoto Protocol, have you ever read it? The only nation truly affected by it is the United States. It give total passes to nations like China and India. In a global economy, that doesn't seem fair or just. Especially to the American workers. Take Wisconsin for an example. 40 years ago, we had foundries, breweries, tanneries, yeast companies, coal heated homes and the like, all producing the "evil" greenhouse gases. The plants are gone, we have one brewery that's leaving and we heat with natural gas but you want me to cut down further? What should I do, start shooting people? Not everyone can be a barista for Starbucks.
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BB641 year, 3 months ago
As to your warming, we've had the 4th coldest winter with the 3rd most snow in recored history. That can't be possible with your current "Al Gore" bible. We should be all dying of heat. Yea right. Could you send me more salt for the walks, the global warming caused ice on the drive and I broke my shoulder. Warming in deed.
As to the economy, I'm not sure what's causing the down turn. $ 3.50 a gallon for gas is a start. Using food for fuel is a huge cost. Forcing industries to move because of "new and improved" air quality standards hurts us. Terrible lending practices are hurting us. 15,000,000 illegal workers and their families leaching health, education and housing benefits rightfully for Americans only, hurts us. That represents almost 20% of our annual budget. As to the war, it represents less than 3% of our annual budget.
As to safe, we haven't been attacked have we?
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Centinel1 year, 3 months ago
Has anyone considered that cosmic events are the culprit. We are approaching a significant cosmic event that may well cause an extinction level event in 2012. The earth and sun will align directly with the center of the galaxy's black hole. The gravitational forces may well have catastrophic affects on the planet. The poles may well shift drastically. We puny humans will be able to do absolutely nothing to avert such a disastrous event. Considering the "time" in cosmic terms; 4 years is an instant. Could it be that we are experiencing some initial affects of that alignment?
Megalomaniacs like Gore and Blair and others are crazy to believe humans could have effected cosmic events.
Get Real!
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HannibalBarca1 year, 3 months ago
There is no such thing as black holes!!!well maybe but you have to understand what playing old LP's on a turntable with headphones on while on acid, a black hole is that space between songs, when your acid soaked brain is sucked into void of some kind only to be saved when the next song come on.....
It was a bummer when the album ended and someone didn't change it,...oh the klunk...klunk...klunk drove one insane
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djn3nunez31 year, 3 months ago
...Has anyone considered that cosmic events are the culprit. We are approaching a significant cosmic event that may well cause an extinction level event in 2012.
I think the Aztec or the Myians did.....
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Bradwhite1 year, 3 months ago
Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts
Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder
WASHINGTON รข;; Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."
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saintetienne1 year, 3 months ago
"Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."
Hey! I've been posting this for months! Nice to know there's a book written about it. And if you factor in the Baby Boom generation (appropriately named), and all those millions of parents religiously adhering to "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care" in the '60's, raising their brats to whine and complain until you get what you want from the government, you come up with one nasty, bad-ass generation of petulant, malcontent adults.
Thank GOD this generation is on its way to retirement and then out the door.
And here's a thought: If they're so concerned about global warming, why doesn't this asinine generation just stop whining and shut their mouths? The temperature of the atmosphere would drop by 8 or 10 degrees right there from the stoppage of all that hot air.
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deaconblue761 year, 3 months ago
And yet this winter has the highest amount of ice and snow on the Northern hemisphere since records have been kept: http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story....
In fact, this winter has averaged as codler than the average for all of the 20th century. New Ice age? Probably not, but maybe there sin't as much warming as the Chicken Littles of the world would like to squawk about.
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djrevelky1 year, 3 months ago
Actually, global warming melts the glaciers thus releasing cold water into the world's oceans. As a result, the climate cools.
So...if global warming is happening (it isn't) the earth naturally regulates itself overtime. Isn't that neat?
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saintetienne1 year, 3 months ago
From the book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness":
"Modern liberalism's irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche." The Liberal Mind reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world's political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty."
This is all true, but we can't let Liberals know. They'll demand to be treated for this psychiatric condition, then demand that the government (i.e. us taxpayers) pay for it.
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HannibalBarca1 year, 3 months ago
Ohh come on NUMPTY, how much in taxes do you pay working at Wendy's, you probably still live at home with mommie and daddy you loser....NUMPTY
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Ratskii1 year, 3 months ago
Now the author couldn't possibly be attempting to cash in on what is obviously a lucrative line of though that will appeal to you and people like you based on your prejudices. No, if he is stating something you already believe, he must be representing the truth. It couldn't possibly be that he's trying to make a buck off of you fools, could it?
You right wingers are so laughable.
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PapaWolf1 year, 3 months ago
Was that book written by the same author who said Blacks were less intelligent because their brains were smaller?
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THOMNH621 year, 3 months ago
come on GW, I live in the mountains and can't wait to have beach front property eat yr heart out.
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Chader1 year, 3 months ago
At times like these I wish I lived in a place which is much higher above sea level than my current home :)
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